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From: Paul Brandon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 12:58 PM
To: TIPS Mailing List
Subject: Re: What makes people happy?
At 12:09 PM -0600 2/16/01, jim clark wrote:
>Hi
>
>On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Hope some of you have data on intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivators -
perhaps,
>> individual differences that modulate the effectiveness of each. . . I am
>> aware of research concerning the (often detrimental, within particular
>> contexts) effect of tangible rewards on motivation and creative,
divergent
>> thinking/product . . (working at home - refs in my office) Any other
>> approaches to this issue in the literature that I haven't taken the time
to
>> discover on my own?? (shame on me)
>
>Isn't there longitudinal data for university students showing a
>decline in the valuing of
^^^^^^^^^^
In other words -- verbal reporting
>education out of curiosity, personal
>development, or social good motives, and an increase in mercenary
>motivation?
This would certainly be consistent with a shift in the reinforcement
contingencies controlling verbal report as job interview time approached!
My response: This would make sense if the longitudinal data being reported
here was from 1st year of college to Senior year but I think Jim may have
been referring to generational longitudinal data showing this change over a
generation. If reinforcement contingencies are controlling such a change
that at least says something about changes in society that have brought
about such different contingencies. What has changed about society that
causes contemporary students to make statements valuing mercenary values
while earlier generations identified with more intrinsic motivations?
Rick
